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Hidden Back Links - Let content thieves promote your site
Mod Version: 1.00, by bjhuang (Coder) bjhuang is offline
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vB Version: 3.8.0 Rating: (22 votes - 3.55 average) Installs: 122
Released: 16 Jan 2009 Last Update: 17 Jan 2009 Downloads: 734
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What does it do

It inserts some hidden links (back to your forum) into the content of long posts. If someone steals your content, copy & paste a post to other places, there will be at least a link back to the original URL of your site. Good for SEO too.

Since you can't stop content thieves anyway, why not take some advantages?

Install

Step 1: import product-copyright.xml
Step 2: add this to the main css->additional css definition

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* for SEO purpose, there is an option to choose links back to a thread or a post.
* the back links will become visiable after copy&paste. if you like them to stay hidden, just open and modify template "copyright"

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i do not recommend to do this cause this may be bad for SEO.

Sounds stupid?

Yes, stupid enough. It is so easy to remove the back links. But from my experience, thieves are busy, blind, or more stupider. Most of them won't remove the links. You can't image how many back links i got this way.

You could modify the phrase "copyright_source" to some unique string. And google for it.


Will it hurt my SEO?

I can't promise that. but I think it does more good than evil. You could give your opinions here.




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  #46  
Old 05 Jun 2009, 18:57
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i've got 600+ stolen posts (which means 600+ backlinks) since i released this mod. and my traffic from google goes up 24%. but of course this can not be a 100% proof to tell if this mod help or hurt your SERP.

i set it only insert copyright into posts with 500+ words. god knows how many more shorter posts get stolen. but i am sure there are a lot of lazy content thieve who can not identify and filter out the copyright text although it's so obvious.
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Old 04 Aug 2009, 20:00
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thnxxxxxx
very good
but the advanced edit is not work
i need to hide the copyright on the other site
thnx
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Old 04 Aug 2009, 20:20
alsultan88 alsultan88 is offline
 
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how can i edit the Font size or color that the link and copyright appear in the other site (after copy & paste )
?????????
thnx
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Old 05 Aug 2009, 01:14
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it would be much better to have a hyperlinked dot show up in the post.
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Old 07 Aug 2009, 20:39
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There is no rhyme or reason for when this decides to add the copyright line very aggravating !
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Old 07 Aug 2009, 21:12
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/me uninstalls cant not duplicate the way this works everytime
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Old 17 Aug 2009, 06:09
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Old 03 Oct 2009, 02:42
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Amazing Hack!! this works!! i have gotten more than 100 backlinks owning to this beauty!!
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Old 03 Oct 2009, 20:31
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Originally Posted by morrow View Post
I just installed with no problems. I ran a test and it made me laugh (in a good way). I know there are some people out there who do this.

Here are a few issues that may or may not be good.

First, When you cut and paste into another thread, the entire code is right there in plain site. I'm sure people who are cutting and pasting will not miss this and edit it out immediately, unless they are just that stupid, blind, or cracked up.

Second, for some reason the copyright is being torn up. Example:

原帖地址: North Eastern Forums

Wuz up wit dat.
Same here!

原帖地址: LaserEnthusiast.com

?????
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Old 03 Oct 2009, 20:35
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To fix this,
Go to PHRASE MANAGER
SEARCH IN PHRASES

search for
ŽŸ–œ€
Change it to
Copyright
or whatever you want it to read.
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Old 30 Oct 2009, 17:55
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If it works as intended....excellent...will mark as soon as installed...millions of things to do!

TSG!
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Old 31 Oct 2009, 00:21
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Thumbs up

Excellent work my friend!!! INSTALLED
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Old 02 Nov 2009, 04:13
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looks ok on the face of it as its simply a phrase (link) thats added to the post, however it's easily defeated if its pasted in to microsoft word before pasting to anywhere else, the link doesn't appear.
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Old 02 Nov 2009, 13:17
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I dont get how this mod works... copying and pasting text from a post does nothign for me
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Old 02 Nov 2009, 13:25
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Hi !

This mod is quite interesting but is there a way to restict it to work only in some forums/categories ?
For instance, I have a trade forum with very long items lists but it doesn't matter (more over some members will found this quite upsetting, having back links to the forum in their trading list) if there're no link back when the copy/paste their list.

Thanks.
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